page_title: La Baie
section_title: Automobile
hierarchical_section_title: La Baie / Borough / Transportation / Automobile
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Boulevard De la Grande-Baie Nord (route 372) en direction de l'arrondissement La Baie
context_page_description: La Baie is one of three boroughs in the city of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It was created during Quebec's municipal reorganization in 2002. From 1976 to 2001, it was known as the Town of La Baie, a municipality composed of the Grande-Baie, Bagotville, and Port-Alfred sectors.
  It is located on the bank of the Ha! Ha! Bay at the mouths of the Ha! Ha! River and the Mars River. La Baie was the first colony built in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region. It was founded by the Société des Vingt et un who settled the area in 1838. The depth of the banks of the Ha! Ha! Bay's waterways facilitated the rapid development of the region's largest harbour facilities after the railways were built in 1910.
  The borough's main sources of socio-economic development have been the logging and the pulp and paper industries since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively. Aluminum production began in the early 1980s. After the Abitibi-Consolidated paper mill, one of the main employers of the borough, shut down in 2004, Saguenay's elected officials decided to invest in La Baie's tourism industry by building and operating a port of call for cruise ships in 2008.
context_section_description: A provincial highway and two interregional highways cross La Baie. The main road, Highway 170, runs from Highway 70 (which junctions with Highway 175) to Chicoutimi and Port-Alfred. It becomes an interregional highway along Ha! Ha! Bay toward lower Saguenay. The other interregional highway, the Route du petit Parc (Highway 381), begins at Port-Alfred and heads toward Ferland-et-Boilleau. These interregional roads both connect the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region to Charlevoix. The only intermunicipal highway is Saint-Jean-Baptiste Boulevard, which becomes Grande-Baie Nord Boulevard (Highway 372) on the eastern edge of the borough. It connects Rivière-du-Moulin in Chicoutimi to Bagotville.
  Automobile traffic in the borough passes mostly on Highway 170. The stretch between Bagotville Airport and Grande-Baie is used by 10,000 automobiles daily. Between Grande-Baie and lower Saguenay, it drops to 2,500 to 5,000 automobiles. The Petit Parc (Highway 381) in direction of Ferland-et-Boilleau is used by 1,000 to 2,500 vehicles per day and the ligne Bagot (Grande-Anse Road) between Bagotville Airport and the Grande-Anse Maritime Terminal is travelled by fewer than 1,000 vehicles a day. In 2000, 5% of vehicles from outside the region came from the Laurentian Wildlife Reserve (Highway 175) and 30% from lower Saguenay using Highway 170. Over 1,000 heavy vehicles drive between La Baie and Chicoutimi every day using only this road. Fewer than 500 heavy vehicles a day come from lower Sagenay and Ferland-de-Boilleau.
  Public transportation in the borough is provided by the City-owned Société de transport du Saguenay (STS). Two bus lines link the Chicoutimi and La Baie terminals: the Via Saint-Jean-Baptiste line that uses Highway 372 and the Via Aéroport that goes by Highway 170. Three bus lines from the La Baie terminal serve the borough year-round and one during the winter. The Des Érables via Centre d'achats line travels to the Bagotville sector, the Polyvalente de La Baie via Avenue du Parc to Port-Alfred, and the Boulevard de la Grande-Baie Sud to Grande-Baie. The fourth bus line, Chemin Saint-Louis, travels along Saint-Louis Road during the wintertime.
  Cyclists can travel through La Baie using Route Verte 8. The bicycle path enters La Baie by De la Grande-Baie Nord Boulevard and reaches Laurier-Simard Quay, where it stretches six kilometres along Ha! Ha! Bay.
caption: The De la Grande-Baie Nord Boulevard (Highway 372) toward downtown La Baie
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